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If this is not allowed. Please delete it. https://chevtecgroup.ticketspice.com/bigboreblast2026

Also the MG 42 used a spring loaded weight (bolt catch), too stop bolt bounce.

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Prints https://archive.org/details/M1918BrowningAutomaticRifleBlueprints Reading https://archive.org/details/browningautomati0000hodg And Basic Field Manual FM23 https://archive.org/details/FM23-151943/page/n17/mode/2up And there is more. The Internet Archive is a great library. Edit to add text

I covered over the buttstock with my hand. It looks good as a 1927 A5

Hi jdmae86, might find something on the 1919 forum.

Thanks JJX and 68coupe, that link was from a saved file. It makes no sense to try to make sense of gov. regs.

Section 6.2.1 Edit to add, JJX pointed out that "engraved on the barrel or frame or receiver" is outdated.

Look here for prices. https://bowmanarms.com/parts-kits/m1a1-thompson-parts-kit/ https://royaltigerimports.com/product-category/parts-kits/

Its not only time, but strategic materials. The tool steel for the stamp may have been better used somewhere else.

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

Great pics Stampcollector, Thanks for sharing them.

The six looks like an overstamp on a five. Maybe Friday on the Savage assembly line, and Joe grabbed the wrong stamp, whoopsie, then got the six and a light strike on the zero. Ya never know.

Thats a nice lot of M3 parts there. I have not bought in a while so can't help on price. Barrel and stock hold most value. Prices have exploded on GG parts.

Can't help with the dates, Very nice Bren. Lots of history there.

Thanks Frank I. I have an advanced neanderthals technical abilities. I was lucky just to get it posted.

Compliments to Mongo for a cleaner copy. With material specs.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/TM-9-1005-229-35.pdf Like Mongo said, a slot will weaken it. But it will still have more area than an M3A1 plate.

Cut a slot in the plate to clear the ejector. Why not just remove the housing?

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Here is the link to the BAR prints in the Internet Archive. Free to download. https://archive.org/details/M1918BrowningAutomaticRifleBlueprints/page/n1/mode/2up They are a great library and an asset to all of us. If you like the prints, think about donating to keep this stuff available. (If this is not allowed, please delete)

You can see the difference in the cast and machined trigger housings. Even after machining the Arma Steel casting has a grainier, even pitted, surface finish than the smooth surface of steel. Is your gun parked or blued? The steel ones I've seen were blued. If parked it would have been sand blasted and harder to tell. Maybe that will help. Also found this interesting. http://www.90thidpg.us/Equipment/Articles/BARStocks2/index.html

From Wiki. Production rates greatly increased in 1943, after IBM introduced a method of casting BAR receivers from a new type of malleable iron developed by the Saginaw division of General Motors, called ArmaSteel.[28]After it successfully passed a series of tests at Springfield Armory, the Chief of Ordnance instructed other BAR receiver manufacturers to change over from steel to ArmaSteel castings for this part.[28] During the Korean War M1918A2 production was resumed, this time contracted to the Royal McBee Typewriter Co., which produced an additional 61,000 M1918A2s.[29]

68 coupe, if there is not enough detail. I can try and email it to you. If you are on Weapons Guild, I put the complete set in their library.

I'll try again